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BOORDE (ANDREW) The Breviarie of Health wherin doth Folow, Remedies, for all Maner of Sicknesses & Diseases, the which May Be in Man or Woman... Now newly corrected and amended, 2 parts in 1 vol., Thomas East, 1587
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BOORDE (ANDREW)
The Breviarie of Health wherin doth Folow, Remedies, for all Maner of Sicknesses & Diseases, the which May Be in Man or Woman... Now newly corrected and amended, 2 parts in 1 vol., titles within typographical borders, seventeenth century calf, note on the author ("a Sussex man...") in a nineteenth century hand on the front free endpaper, spine tooled in gilt within compartments, bowed [STC 3377; Durling 635; Wellcome 10992603], 4to, Thomas East, 1587
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First published in 1547 The Breviarie is "probably the earliest "modern" work on hygiene, [and] throws some light on the condition of that subject in the 16th century" (Garrison & Morton).
Provenance: price "3.3-" on title; Henry Cunliffe (1826-1894), bookplate.





















